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Presented by Brian Redhead and, for the last time, by John Timpson
7.0,8.0 Today's News Read by DAVID SYMONDS
7.20* Business News
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.30 News Summary
7.45* Thought for the Day

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The best of the Stars and Gripes series in which a constellation of stars with universal gripes talk to John Howard about their consumer problems, while Paul Daniels , Tom Conti Prunella Scales
Linda Davidson , Colin Baker and Jilly Cooper take part in a Christmas Eve special. Producer ANGELA KNIGHT

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Do You Remember?...
To end the programme's 40th anniversary year, Sue MacGregor listens again to some of the voices and stories of Woman's Hour's more recent past.
Eight Stories by Elizabeth Bowen abridged by JANET HICKSON Read by Patricia Hodge 8: Green Holly

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Each autumn, members of the Jane Austen Society of North
America meet for their Annual National Conference to discuss one of Miss Austen's novels. When they focused on Northanger Abbey in the historic city of Savannah, Georgia, Jean Snedegar was there.
Producer SUSAN SNAlLUM (R)

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Christmas is the most popular festival in the Mexican calendar, yet while the main streets are filled with shoppers, and the rich prepare to celebrate at the seaside, the homeless are gathering in opposition to the Government, inflation is at
100 per cent, and the country is over-burdened with debt. A BBC Radio News report
(Re-broadcast on Sunday at 11. 15 pm)

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A quiz about the theatre in which two teams of stage and screen actors try to answer questions harder than 'who wrote Hamlet?' and easier than 'why?'
In the Chair Sheila Hancock
Questions researched by HENNY BAYNES and BRIAN HAYWARD Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on New Year's Eve at 12.27 pm)

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By Agatha Christie, dramatised by Michael Bakewell
With Peter Sallis as Hercule Poirot
Simeon Lee is a monster to all around him and especially his family - but someone has planned to seek revenge on this particular Christmas Eve. The Police
The Household
Directed by Enyd Williams
(Stereo)

In this year of Her Majesty The Queen's 60th birthday, a nostalgic recollection of an age. Where were you when Henry Hall made music and Hitler made headlines; The Goons arrived on wireless and Gagarin departed for space; Kennedy fell victim and the Beatles became heroes; England took the World Cup and Wilson cut the pound; Britain joined the EEC and Nixon left the White House; McEnroe made an entrance and the country basked in the sunshine of a Royal Wedding? Relive these and many other moments in this montage of recollections compiled from the BBC Sound Archives Producer PETER GRIFFITHS (R)

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